This study aimed to compare gait properties during level walking and during stair ascent and descent with varying loads. Fifteen healthy young men (mean age: 22.1 ± 1.6 years) walked while holding four different ...This study aimed to compare gait properties during level walking and during stair ascent and descent with varying loads. Fifteen healthy young men (mean age: 22.1 ± 1.6 years) walked while holding four different loads relative to each subject’s body mass (0, 20, 40 and 60% of body mass: BM) on their backs. Stance time, swing time, and double support times were selected as gait parameters. All parameters showed a maximal value during stair ascent and a minimum value during level walking. Stance and double support times increased significan- tly with each load during level walking and during stair ascent and descent. In conclusion, st- air ascent and descent creates more unstable movement than level walking regardless of the weight of the load. The effect of loads on gait increases with the weight of the load and becomes obvious once the load exceeds 60% of BM.展开更多
Purpose Understanding the femur load environment during daily activity is necessary for the understanding of risk of femoral pain,pain related falls,and femoral fractures,which could help the design of osteogenic exer...Purpose Understanding the femur load environment during daily activity is necessary for the understanding of risk of femoral pain,pain related falls,and femoral fractures,which could help the design of osteogenic exercises or the preventa-tive methods for older adults.Methods Using the finite element femur analysis,this study was to estimate the femoral strains at 9 cross-sections along the long axis of femur for stair ascent and descent(n=17;age:50-65 years).Motion analysis and inverse dynamics were com-bined with musculoskeletal modelling and optimization,then were used as input to a 3-D femur model to estimate femoral strains.Strains at the hip contact force peaks were calculated.Results The compressive and tensile strains during stair descent were greater than ascent for all or most cross-sections,especially for the proximal cross-sections of the femur:stair ascent produced−324.0±103.8 to−483.7±191.0μεcompressive strains and descent produced−608.8±288.4 to 1016.0±444.1με;stair ascent produced 336.2±105.4 to 391.8±136.9μεtensile strains and descent produced 546.9±252.8 to 741.7±333.6με.Conclusion Strains represent the material deformation effect on the bone due to the sum of all the bone external loads.Using bone strains could help future studies analyze load conditions in a more comprehensive way for other physical activities,which predicts the risk of stress fractures and tests if alternative methods(gait type change)could reduce stress and strain effectively.展开更多
文摘This study aimed to compare gait properties during level walking and during stair ascent and descent with varying loads. Fifteen healthy young men (mean age: 22.1 ± 1.6 years) walked while holding four different loads relative to each subject’s body mass (0, 20, 40 and 60% of body mass: BM) on their backs. Stance time, swing time, and double support times were selected as gait parameters. All parameters showed a maximal value during stair ascent and a minimum value during level walking. Stance and double support times increased significan- tly with each load during level walking and during stair ascent and descent. In conclusion, st- air ascent and descent creates more unstable movement than level walking regardless of the weight of the load. The effect of loads on gait increases with the weight of the load and becomes obvious once the load exceeds 60% of BM.
基金was provided by Chinese Universities Scientific Fund(Grant No.2020063).
文摘Purpose Understanding the femur load environment during daily activity is necessary for the understanding of risk of femoral pain,pain related falls,and femoral fractures,which could help the design of osteogenic exercises or the preventa-tive methods for older adults.Methods Using the finite element femur analysis,this study was to estimate the femoral strains at 9 cross-sections along the long axis of femur for stair ascent and descent(n=17;age:50-65 years).Motion analysis and inverse dynamics were com-bined with musculoskeletal modelling and optimization,then were used as input to a 3-D femur model to estimate femoral strains.Strains at the hip contact force peaks were calculated.Results The compressive and tensile strains during stair descent were greater than ascent for all or most cross-sections,especially for the proximal cross-sections of the femur:stair ascent produced−324.0±103.8 to−483.7±191.0μεcompressive strains and descent produced−608.8±288.4 to 1016.0±444.1με;stair ascent produced 336.2±105.4 to 391.8±136.9μεtensile strains and descent produced 546.9±252.8 to 741.7±333.6με.Conclusion Strains represent the material deformation effect on the bone due to the sum of all the bone external loads.Using bone strains could help future studies analyze load conditions in a more comprehensive way for other physical activities,which predicts the risk of stress fractures and tests if alternative methods(gait type change)could reduce stress and strain effectively.
